Sally Scott sits on her front porch Saturday while be interviewed about her boyfriend's death Friday. / Kelsey McKinney/The Times

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A woman sat on the front porch of her Shreveport house Saturday morning weeping over the death of her boyfriend, who was shot by a Shreveport police officer inside the house they shared.

The shooting of Albert Brooks, 40, came after a domestic violence incident just hours before and a week and a half of turmoil caused by Brooks' mental state, said Sally Scott, 45.

"He was just out of his mind," Scott said of her boyfriend, who she called schizophrenic and mildly mentally retarded. "I begged him to go to the hospital."

Scott pleaded with Brooks two days prior to the shooting but to no avail. He refused to voluntarily commit himself.

It all came to a head about 4 a.m. Friday, when Brooks was "going off." Anticipating the violent streak Scott says typically follows one of Brooks' episodes, Scott called Shreveport police to their house in the 7600 block of Gideon Street.

He began crying — afraid of being arrested or committed on an emergency basis, she said.

Brooks had been committed at least three times during their four-year relationship, Scott said, and he would constantly talk about how much he hated the 10th floor of LSU Hospital in Shreveport.

"Then, all of a sudden he said 'Why you do me like that?'" Scott recalled. "He got up and hit me in my face — knocked me out. He was beating me till he saw the police showed up and then he ran and jumped out the back window."

Police couldn't catch him, but they issued a warrant for his arrest on a charge of domestic abuse battery.

Scott and cousin Edward Efferson, 42, who also lives at the house, spent the next few hours at a neighbor's home.

They returned at daybreak to find the door kicked in and a window ajar. "I knew," she said.

She called police again and told them Brooks had busted open the door and might still be inside. This was the fourth call to police in a month, Scott said. As she always does, she informed the officers of Brooks' mental state.

When the officers didn't find anyone inside, Efferson went inside to use the bathroom and Scott went inside to close her bedroom window.

Cpl. Darrell Miller stayed to complete a report.

Scott heard dogs barking at the rear of the house, as they usually did when Brooks was in the backyard. She told Miller she suspected Brooks was hiding out in the yard, and she was right.

"I looked up and Albert was coming up on me," she said. He'd run around to the front and entered through the open front door.

She screamed for help and Miller came to intervene, she said.

Albert's hand was behind his back, but she couldn't see what, if anything, was inside.

Shreveport police say Brooks was wielding a screwdriver.

Despite Miller's commands, Brooks lunged at the officer and that's when she heard the stun gun being fired.

But the shocks didn't stop him. Then, "bam, bam, bam, bam, bam." She said she heard several shots fired but was unsure of how many.

Brooks was wounded three times, according to Caddo Parish coroner Todd Thoma.

"I feel like the police didn't need to shoot him so many times," she said.

Scott said she grew up with Brooks on the Cooper Road and will remember him as a good, hard-working person who loved her.

She said she's facing mixed emotions as she nurses her literal wounds from the relationship while mourning the death of a man she loved.

When she and Brooks got back together, they made a commitment to stay together till death — but Scott said she didn't think it would end this way.